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CVE-2025-38512 — wifi: prevent A-MSDU attacks in mesh networks

Affected: Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: prevent A-MSDU attacks in mesh networks

This patch is a mitigation to prevent the A-MSDU spoofing vulnerability for mesh networks. The initial update to the IEEE 802.11 standard, in response to the FragAttacks, missed this case (CVE-2025-27558). It can be considered a variant of CVE-2020-24588 but for mesh networks.

This patch tries to detect if a standard MSDU was turned into an A-MSDU by an adversary. This is done by parsing a received A-MSDU as a standard MSDU, calculating the length of the Mesh Control header, and seeing if the 6 bytes after this header equal the start of an rfc1042 header. If equal, this is a strong indication of an ongoing attack attempt.

This defense was tested with mac80211_hwsim against a mesh network that uses an empty Mesh Address Extension field, i.e., when four addresses are used, and when using a 12-byte Mesh Address Extension field, i.e., when six addresses are used. Functionality of normal MSDUs and A-MSDUs was also tested, and confirmed working, when using both an empty and 12-byte Mesh Address Extension field.

It was also tested with mac80211_hwsim that A-MSDU attacks in non-mesh networks keep being detected and prevented.

Note that the vulnerability being patched, and the defense being implemented, was also discussed in the following paper and in the following IEEE 802.11 presentation:

https://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/wisec2025.pdf https://mentor.ieee.org/802.1…

USN-7879-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-6.14, linux-oracle, linux-realtime vulnerabilities

Affected: Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: linux-hwe-6.14

It was discovered that improper initialization of CPU cache memory could allow a local attacker with hypervisor access to overwrite SEV-SNP guest memory resulting in loss of data integrity. (CVE-2024-36331)

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - S390 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Network block device driver; - Character device driver; - Clock framework and drivers; - Data acquisition framework and drivers; - Hardware crypto device drivers; - Device frequency scaling framework; - DMA engine subsystem; - EDAC drivers; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - Hardware monitoring drivers; - I2C subsystem; - IIO subsystem; - IIO ADC drivers; - InfiniBand drivers; - Input Device core drivers; - Multiple devices driver; - Media drivers; - Network drivers; - Mellanox network drivers; - PCI subsystem; - PHY drivers; - Pin controllers subsystem; - x86 platform drivers; - Power supply drivers; - Powercap sysfs driver; - Voltage and Current Regulator drivers; - S/390 drivers; - ASPEED SoC drivers; - SPI subsystem; - small TFT LCD display modules; - Media staging drivers; - USB Gadget drivers; - vDPA drivers; - VFIO drivers; - Framebuffer layer; - Xen hypervisor drivers; - BTRFS file system; - Ceph distributed file sy…